Fringe World recruits new boss from world’s biggest fringe festival

Camera IconNew Fringe World chief executive Sharon Burgess has more than a decade’s experience with the world’s biggest fringe festival.

Fringe World Festival has found its new chief executive at the world’s biggest fringe festival.

Boasting a decade’s worth of experience producing comedy, cabaret, theatre and large-scale events at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sharon Burgess has been appointed to lead Artrage, the organisation behind Perth’s Fringe.

For the past six years, Ms Burgess has been managing director of Assembly, one of the largest and oldest multi-venue producers at the Scottish event.

Last year, Assembly ran 28 venues that hosted up to 225 shows a day and shifted half a million tickets.

Before Assembly, Ms Burgess was general manager of leading Edinburgh venue operator, the Gilded Balloon.

Having produced tours from the UK to Fringe World, Ms Burgess said she admired Artrage.

“I look forward to building on the exceptional work by (retiring CEO) Marcus Canning,” she said.

“I’m thrilled to make Perth my home and can’t wait to work with the artists and audiences who create such an inspiring, creative destination.”